Physics Department Lands NSF Grant to Buy New Electron-Beam Evaporation System

January 20, 2010
Peter Rooney
Director of Public Affairs
413-542-8452
prooney@amherst.edu.

AMHERST, Mass.—The Physics Department at Amherst College will be the beneficiary of federal stimulus money, thanks to a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant received by Professors Jonathan Friedman, David Hall and Larry Hunter and UMass physicist Mark Tuominen. 

Another Reason to Clear the Air: Better School Attendance

January 12, 2010                               

AMHERST, Mass.—High levels of air pollution—even levels considered acceptable by federal standards—markedly increase school absences, according to a new study by Amherst College economics professor Steven Rivkin, his former student E. Megan Kahn Shaw ’04 and a team of researchers.